July 10, 2013

Beyond the Shelf

Many avid blog readers will already be familiar with these two havens of book purchases, so this is for those newbies who love to book shop while saving a buck or two!

Bought

The Book Depository ... founded in 2004 and based in the UK TBD is one of the world's largest dedicated online booksellers, currently offering over nine million unique titles, available for dispatch within 48 hours, to be shipped free of charge to over 100 countries. Can't make up your mind what to buy? Watch other people buying in real time!

Acquired

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

André Maurois

Purchased

AwesomeBooks ... equally founded back in 2004, AwesomeBooks caters to customers who know a good bargain when they see one. Stocking over two million items, in both used or new condition, with free shipping to UK, USA, Canada and most of Europe at present (and low delivery charges to the rest of thew world), this is the go-to place for everyone who loves used books.

i haven't tried awesomebooks so far i will have a look at it because i must admit i'm quite happy with the bookdepository service ( they resent books that wete stolen/disappeared etc and it'sa security)

i was also recommende betterworld books and fishpond but i haven't tried those

You should try AwesomeBooks too if you don't mind that the books are used. Their service has always been very reliable and even when I noticed months after a purchase that a book had missing pages(!!) they refunded me without a problem.

E recently decided to start reading Pratchett books in German. He contacted a renowned book store in the states and was able to order some books, but it cost him a small fortune. I told him about TBD, and when he looked at the site, he was ill at how much he could have saved.

I can imagine the prices in stores must be high for foreign language books. I still remember how expensive English books used to be when I was still at Uni and bought them all in brick-and-mortar stores instead of online.

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